Economic History

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a ...

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile d...

This book is the first systematic collection of documents for the history of early chambers of commerce. The documents cover all local chambers fou...

Lucid and damning an absorbing and infuriating tale of complicity, coverup and denial PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN ...

Here David McWilliams presents the story of modern Ireland. Surveying four decades, bookended by the visits of the pope in September 1979 and Augus...

'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ... You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart, Evening Standard'A s...

In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barte...

The first volume in this rendition set starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anth...

La Premiere Guerre mondiale et les annees 1920 constituent un moment charniere dans l''economie mondiale. La destabilisation du commerce internatio...

It was a complicated, galling, and gasp-inducing year at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services...

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in cris...